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A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex : with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c

by Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797; Godfrey, J; Newton, James, 1748-ca. 1804; Morris, Thomas, fl. 1766-1800; Marlow, William, 1740-1813; Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806; Pars, William, 1742-1782; Kirgate, Thomas, 1734?-1810; Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)

Publication date 1784

Topics Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)

Publisher Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate

Collection getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor Getty Research Institute

Contributor Getty Research Institute

Language English

Signatures: pi1 A² B-M⁴ N-O²

Errata: p. 88

Illustrations by J. Godfrey, James Newton, and Thomas Morris, after William Marlow, Edward Edwards, and William Pars

ESTC (RLIN)

Hazen, A.T. Walpole

Hazen, A.T. Strawberry Hill

Three broadside poems printed by the Strawberry Hill Press originally laid into this book have been removed and cataloged separately: To Mrs. Crew (1775), The press at Strawberry-Hill to Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry (1788), and The printer's farewell to Strawberry-Hill (1797)

Bound in old marbled paper-covered boards; leather spine and corners, with gilt and blindstamped borders; gilt and blindstamped designs on spine; all edges gilt; armorial bookplate of J. Lane on front pastedown; "List of books printed at Strawberry-Hill" annotated and expanded in an old hand